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Luis Lopez
Luis Lopez

Reputation: 561

I cannot connect to Gcloud instance using ssh, since cpu is 99.9% of use

I have a gcloud vm instance of type custom (4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory), with ubuntu 16.04, 10Gb disk space. Today at specific time (7:30 am), start using the 99% of cpu. I restart the machine but continue to use the 99% of cpu. Now I cannot connect through ssh. There is any workaround to connect to my instance and see what the problem is?? Thank you!!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 466

Answers (1)

Tux
Tux

Reputation: 2065

You could probably try to connect through the serial port :

gcloud compute instances add-metadata INSTANCE --metadata serial-port-enable=1
gcloud compute connect-to-serial-port INSTANCE

Probably the tty on the serial port will be a lot less sensitive to the high CPU usage and you'll be able to log in.

Now, this will ask you for a user and password...what to do if you are (correctly) using only RSA Keypair authentication for ssh? Here there is a quick and dirty hack that does the job:

1 - Set up this as the startup script echo "root:1234" | chpasswd like this, for example:

gcloud compute instances add-metadata INSTANCE --metadata startup-script='echo "root:1234" | chpasswd'

2 - Reboot the instance so the startup script is applied

3 - Log in through the serial port

gcloud compute connect-to-serial-port INSTANCE

4 - Use root as username and 1234 as password (or whatever you put in the script)

5 - Don't forget to disable serial port access when you don't need it anymore.

Upvotes: 4

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